This morning we managed to have a bit of a lay-in, and didn't wake up until around 8:30AM. This was partly because I managed to get a better nights sleep, although Nóirín (who was up until 3AM reading) said I woke up in the early hours and said "F*£k its still night-time", and promptly fell back asleep. I vaguely remember being very angry that I hadn't managed to sleep right the way through the night. Nóirín couldn't sleep, hence the reading till 3AM. Another reason why we were able to sleep in a bit.
We decided to skip breakfast this morning. I wasn't going to eat, as I didn't want to be be unwell anymore, and Nóirín wasn't hungry, so we set off to spend the morning on the beach. On the way, we stopped to speak to Oscar, our butler, to ask him to book the Brazillian restaurant for us, which he did for 7:30PM. We carried on down to the beach where we managed to get the same chairs as the day before so we had a view of the sea from where we were sitting again. Nóirín was in and out of the sun, to ensure she didn't cook too much. I stayed mainly in the shade, and occasionally we both got up to go down to the waters edge, where it was windier and cooler.
Just before lunch, we decided to take a dip in the sea. We got about waist deep, but the waves were a little large for Nóirín, so she went to sit at the edge and waves were breaking on her. I went for a very quick swim, to cool off, before we went to have lunch. We walked back up to the room to drop off our stuff. Before we did, Nóirín reminded me that we needed to find the Thomson rep to book the Jungle Rally Tour. Nóirín went back to the room, and I went to the "Punta Cana" resort reception where the Thomson Rep is. I booked the tour, and also asked about the Hot Air Balloons. She told me that 8 out of 10 bookings for the Balloons are cancelled due to the weather, so I didn't bother with that. I also asked about the helicopters, and they go every day, so we may do that next week. They are quite expensive for the 15 minutes flying time you get though.
I went back to the room to meet Nóirín and then we went to find a restaurant for lunch. On the way past back to the room, I noticed the main buffet, and the Royal Gourmet both seemed to be closed. Maybe this was due to July 4th, but not sure why. We set off walking looking for a restaurant that was open. This may not have been the smartest idea, as we had just been in the sea not long before, most of the sun screen would have been washed off of us, but we seemed to survive anyway. After walking most of the way across the resort, we found a "Snack Bar" which looked like a Chip Shop back home. The food in there, even though it was probably perfectly fine, didn't look great. We carried on walking and eventually ended up back at the Arrecife restaurant.
They were celebrating the 4th July in there, with lots of American style food. The burger I chose was very pink, and I thought it was undercooked, until I realized it was actually a Hamburger, Nóirín had lots of different things, she is more adventurous with food than I am.
After lunch, we decided to get the land-train back to the room, but after waiting at the covered stopping place for 20 minutes, it appeared one would not be coming, We had seen them running in the morning, so we couldn't understand it. There was a Dad there with a small girl and a slightly older boy. The little girl was asking her Dad everything "Papa, whats that?", "Papa, why is this here?", "Papa, what is that tree for?" (asking about a signpost in the shape of a tree). I don't think she stopped asking questions the entire time we were waiting. The boy hardly said a word.
I went back to the restaurant reception and asked them to call us a buggy, one of the privileges we have of being in the Royal Suites. 10 minutes later it still hadn't arrived. I saw the girl on the reception looking across at us, and then calling again. It seems the buggy had got caught behind the land train, so they arrived together. We got in the buggy so we could go straight back, without having to stop at all the stops on the way.
When we got back to the room, I noticed the TV had no signal at all on any channel while I was waiting for Nóirín to get ready. We spent the afternoon by the pool, taking the occasional dip in the pool, although Nóirín only joined me for the last dip of the day at about 5:30PM, for about half an hour. We then went back to the room to get ready for the evening meal.
We got to the restaurant and were shown to our table. I was surprised when the girl only gave us a Wine Menu. She explained to us "There is no menu. Please help yourself to the salad bar, and when you are finished your plate will be changed". We were intrigued so we went to get salad, and when we had finished, we waited for our plates to be changed. From this point on, I thought I had died and gone to food heaven. This place is amazing.
The plate was brought out to us, and on it was a small pile of rice and beans, a piece of carrot, a bit of potato, and a corn on the cob potion. We just looked at each other. Then a minute later, a man gave us 3 sauces, although I couldn't tell you what they were, but they were nice. Then about a minute after that, a girl came to the table with a skewer with Chicken on it, and asked if we wanted some. We both said yes, so she cut some off, and went to the next table.
Then another girl arrived asking if we wanted Turkey,
- then another with Salami sausage,
- then another with Fish,
- then another with Lamb,
- another with Pork,
- another with Beef,
- another with Sirloin,
- another with Pineapple,
- another with Vegetables.
There was a card on the table which was green on one site, and red on the other. The idea was, they would keep coming round until you turned the card to the red side. The food was amazing! The Pork was a little dry, the Sirloin a little rare for my liking, and the Lamb was to tough to try, but everything else tasted wonderful. Amazing restaurant, which I loved. Deserts in this place were not as good, I decided on fruit for desert, so I wasn't disappointed. Noírín had the chocolate truffles, which tasted to me like marzipan, but they were a little heavy.
We started back to the room, but as the TV wasn't working we went to the butler to ask about the DVD's available. He told us everyone had the same problem with the TV and sent us to the main reception to ask the butler there for the DVD's. It seems everyone else had the same idea, so he only had 4 left, Les Miserables, Hairspray, and 2 other not particularly interesting ones. We gave up on the idea. Back in the room, I managed to get Netflix working on my laptop, so we watched "Battleship" instead. Well, I did, Nóirín was asleep within about 30 minutes.
That ended day 7. Half the holiday has gone already....
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